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Glory. Vengeance. War.
So, I'm officially beginning work on my next project. My aim is to combine 300 and 300: Rise of an Empire into one epic about the Grecco-Persian War. Obviously, I'm not just gluing the two films together since Rise of an Empire takes place before, during, and after the original 300. Since the first film ends roughly two thirds of the way through Rise of an Empire, I'm going to be downplaying the final slaughter of Leonidas and the 300. Not the importance, but rather to make it feel less like a climax.
I'm also aiming to remove the narration of Dilios from the film entirely. Here's where combining the two gets tricky: the first 300 is more or less explicitly Dilios telling the story of Leonidas and his soldiers, while Rise of an Empire is presented as more of a...and I use this loosely...historical account. Ish. Point being, there is a bit of a disconnect between the narrative styles of the two films that I aim to close a bit.
Of course, this is just a general outline, and I do plan to go more in depth with cutting as opposed to just gluing alternating scenes together. My final goal for running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, but I feel that it will be a bit shorter than that.
More details as they emerge.
So, I'm officially beginning work on my next project. My aim is to combine 300 and 300: Rise of an Empire into one epic about the Grecco-Persian War. Obviously, I'm not just gluing the two films together since Rise of an Empire takes place before, during, and after the original 300. Since the first film ends roughly two thirds of the way through Rise of an Empire, I'm going to be downplaying the final slaughter of Leonidas and the 300. Not the importance, but rather to make it feel less like a climax.
I'm also aiming to remove the narration of Dilios from the film entirely. Here's where combining the two gets tricky: the first 300 is more or less explicitly Dilios telling the story of Leonidas and his soldiers, while Rise of an Empire is presented as more of a...and I use this loosely...historical account. Ish. Point being, there is a bit of a disconnect between the narrative styles of the two films that I aim to close a bit.
Of course, this is just a general outline, and I do plan to go more in depth with cutting as opposed to just gluing alternating scenes together. My final goal for running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, but I feel that it will be a bit shorter than that.
More details as they emerge.